A MUSICIAN turned author has returned to his former childhood home in Weymouth to unveil his first book.

Retired drummer Edward Page, 68, lived in Trinity Road after relocating to Dorset from London after the Second World War.

He documents some of his fondest memories in new publication ‘A Weymouth Childhood in the 1950s’.

Mr Page and wife Maureen visited his former home – now the Lanes Restaurant – to introduce the book.

He now hopes to get a copy to an Australian sailor who saved him from Weymouth harbour when he was six.

Mr Page said: “Just after the war, my parents took me and my three siblings from bomb-shattered London to a dilapidated house in Trinity Road to run a guest house.”

Grandfather-of-four Mr Page’s new book, available through Amberley Publishing, focuses on both his childhood and Weymouth’s history.

Mr Page also recalls how sailor Haddon Spurgeon leapt into Weymouth harbour to save him.

He was playing near his former home in 1948 when he fell into the water. Mr Spurgeon, an 18-year-old Midshipman serving on HMS Glasgow, jumped in to save him.

It took nearly 60 years for Mr Page to discover his rescuer’s identity – thanks to the Dorset Echo and the HMS Glasgow Association.

“I dug out the article on my rescue and it helped me finally track down my hero and thank him,” he said.

“That got me thinking about writing about my memories. So the book is really inspired by the Dorset Echo.”

Mr Page, who now lives in Berkshire, hopes to get a copy of his book to Mr Spurgeon, now a retired naval Commander living in Canberra.